The mainstream rallying cry about the “War on Women” implies that “reproductive rights” is solely a woman’s issue and benefits women. But, the truth is that women are targeted, experimented on, and even killed through “family planning” initiatives that encourage women, not men, to use life-threatening medication. I know– because birth control nearly killed me. No feminist acknowledges the negative consequences created by primarily promoting female “birth control.” One significant consequence is that it reinforces long-held, and profoundly sexist, cultural and legal norms that ignore male responsibility and culpability, which actually creates tangible gender inequalty.

The mainstream rallying cry about the “War on Women” implies that “reproductive rights” is solely a woman’s issue and benefits women. But, the truth is that women are targeted, experimented on, and even killed through “family planning” initiatives that encourage women, not men, to use life-threatening medication. I know– because birth control nearly killed me. No feminist acknowledges the negative consequences created by primarily promoting female “birth control.” One significant consequence is that it reinforces long-held, and profoundly sexist, cultural and legal norms that ignore male responsibility and culpability, which actually creates tangible gender inequalty.